| Classical Japanese Prose: An Anthology Contributor(s): McCullough, Helen Craig (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0804719608 ISBN-13: 9780804719605 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1991 Annotation: " McCullough deserves our thanks and gratitude for compiling this anthology." -- Monumenta Nipponica |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Asian - General |
| Dewey: 895.680 |
| LCCN: 89078331 |
| Physical Information: 1.42" H x 6.01" W x 9.05" (1.83 lbs) 596 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese - Ethnic Orientation - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume brings together in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese prose dating from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries, a period during which the preeminent cultural and aesthetic values were those of the Heian court. It contains 22 works representing all the major indigenous literary forms, either complete or in generous excerpts, and is particularly rich in writing by women and in autobiographical writings. This anthology contains longer selections than the only other available anthology, which was published in the 1950s, and each selection is preceded by an introduction reflecting the most recent scholarship. With three exceptions, all the translations are by the compilers, and almost all of them are published here for the first time. Because of space limitations, the compiler has omitted the two long masterpieces of the age, The Tale of Genji and The Tale of Heike, which deserve to be read in their entirety, and which are available in paperback English translations. The book contains an extensive general introduction, thirteen illustrations, five maps, a glossary, and a selected bibliography of works in English translation. |